FLUORIDATED WATER AND BATHING

FLUORIDATED WATER AND BATHING

Anything you put on your skin is somethingthat you should be willing to swallow!
The actual amount that you will absorb through skin varies with more variables than even hot versus cold water. Children will absorb a higherpercentage since they have more surface area per body weight.

Our skin absorbs everything we put on it including petrol, oil, fluoride, insecticide, in fact MOST chemicals…

Miloslav Nosal, M.Sc., Ph.D. Professor of Biostatistics Department of Mathematics and StatisticsThe University of Calgary⇒HERE⇐

WHY WE RECOMMEND FILTERING BATH AND SHOWER WATER

If you can’t afford a whole-house filtering system, then at least filter your shower / bath water, since that’s going to be your most significant source of contamination.

Showering or bathing in contaminated tap water poses even more of a risk to your health than drinking it, so it isn’t enough to simply filter the water you drink. Optimally, you may opt to install in a whole home water filtration system..

“Studies done by H.S. Brown, Ph.D., D.R. Bishop, MPH, and C.A. Rowan, MSPH in the early 1980s showed that anaverage of 64% of the total dose of waterborne contaminants is absorbed through the skin. Also, studies by Dr. Julian Andelman, Professor of Water Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, found less chemical exposure from drinking contaminated water than using it to wash the clothes or take a shower (American Journal of Public Health, May 1984).”

“These 3 researchers Brown, Bishop, and Rowan] used Fick’s Lawto determine permeability constants for selected compounds. Then they calculated dose per kilogram for 9 different exposure situations and compared this to the oral dose per kilogram. They found that skin absorption contributed from 29 to 91 percent of the total dose, averaging 64 percent.”

That’s not saying 29 to 91 percent of the fluoride will be absorbed; that’s saying that 29 to 91 percent of all the chemicals absorbed into the body from water came through skin absorption and the rest from ingestion.

The actual amount that you will absorb through skin or through inhalation varies with more variables than even hot versus cold water. Even the amount of fluoride in the tap water varies and is not a set constant. Children will absorb a higher percentage since they have more surface area per body weight. A child is not an adult, but most toxicological data are based on occupational exposures for adults. I was unable to find a study on fluoride absorption specifically. I think one should be done.

One EPA scientist said, “For instance, a shower cubicle can be considered an ‘exposure chamber’. Exposure to volatile contaminants absorbed via the lung would be about double the same amount from drinking water. In the bath, underarms, scrotal and vaginal areas as well as the groin absorb far greater amounts than in the normal unwashed forearm test.”

“Surprisingly, ingestion is not the most efficient way to deliver toxicants into the system. Dermal exposure and inhalation of the contaminants are absorbed directly into the blood stream.
Of the three modes of exposure, dermal exposures are the most efficient:
virtually 100% of the contaminants are absorbed into the system.”

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[The palms of hands and soles of feet being most efficient
due to this skin not being protected by natural skin oils.
These ridge prints contain pores, which are attached
to sweat glands under the skin.]

Swimming in Fluoridated Water:

…The Hood made this comment earlier:

“As someone who worked in the water industry I know how tightly the dosing systems were monitored.We are talking 0.90 parts per million in your drinking water, the equivalent of a grain of sugar in an Olympic Sized swimming pool!”

HIS CLAIM IS COMPLETELY INCORRECT:An Olympic sized swimming pool contains 2.5 million litres of water and a grain of sugar typically weighs approximately 0.2mg. So a grain of sugar in an Olympic sized swimming pool would give a concentration of 0.00000008 parts per million thus underestimating the amount of fluoride by a over a billion percent. To fluoridate an Olympic sized swimming pool to 0.9ppm you would have to add 11.25 kg of hydrofluorosilisic acid which would give a total of 2.25 kilograms of fluoride ion – enough to cause severe poisoning or death to a few thousand people in the concentrated form. In addition there have been dozens of incidents of overdosing fluoride due to equipment malfunction worldwide. One example is in in north Brisbane in 2009 where fluoride was delivered at 20 times the maximum allowed level.

People who deny the dangerous effects of fluoridemay be suffering from reverse gullibility(The profession is duped by its emotional adherence to an outdated practice.)